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The Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany, invites applications for three full-time scientific staff positions in the project 'Next-Generation Corpus Analysis Platform'. The project intends to provide a methodologically sound basis for empirical linguistic research on very large corpora. The platform shall be able to deal with primary data and multiple layers of annotation in the peta-byte range.

Responsibilities: - Analysis and development of linguistic annotations - Modelling of methods in quantitative corpus analysis

Requirements: - University degree in linguistics, German philology or equivalent qualification - Solid knowledge of markup languages - Programming skills, especially in scripting languages, e.g. Perl, also XSLT - Very good command of German

All applicants are expected to be willing to participate in scientific publications and presentations.

The openings shall be filled by the 1st of March 2011 (or later) for an initial period of two years.

The salary is figured according to the union contract named TV-L. The filling of the positions will proceed in accordance with German law, especially the directives laid out in the 'Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz' in its current version. Applications from disabled persons are very welcome.

The Institut für Deutsche Sprache is the central non-university institution for the study and documentation of the contemporary usage and recent history of the German language. Together with 79 non-university research and service institutions, it belongs to the Leibniz Association, one of the four major research organizations in Germany.

For further information please contact Dr. Marc Kupietz or Dr. Andreas Witt (kupietzids-mannheim.de or wittids-mannheim.de). Applications received by the 31st of January 2011 will receive fullest consideration. Recruitment may continue until the positions are filled. Please include the usual documents and indicate the respective application code.